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We are tightly integrated with marketing science teams to deliver on and exceed our clients’ business goals.\nResponsibilities\nExternal facing responsibilities:\nPartner with Planning & Investment teams to provide expert hands-on Data Science support across the entire campaign lifecycle.\nBuild advanced ML models to cluster and segment audiences, scale and deploy custom audiences across various platforms/publishers\nRun descriptive and diagnostic analyses to help measure campaign performance within clean rooms and/or other analytics platforms (e.g., Google ADH, Facebook advanced analytics, Amazon Marketing Cloud, etc.)\nStrong project management skills with an ability to set priorities, meet deadlines and know when to ask for help\nLeverage technical (coding) expertise to help bring about process efficiencies\nundefined\nInternal facing responsibilities:\nContribute to building decks and reports that help translate analytical results to internal and client teams\nContribute to building DS Practice knowledge repository via decks, documents, and other artifacts\nLead and train managers and other junior team members\nRequired Skills\nHands-on programming language skills (SQL, Python, R, etc)\nIntermediate exposure to machine learning techniques, causal models, etc. to support the analysis of information\nAdvanced presentation and communication skills\nSome experience working with non-technical teams\nKnowledge of digital clean rooms, and their related concepts and strategy\nCertifications in any of the following: Meta (Blueprint), SQL, Python, R (online)\nDemonstrated domain knowledge of business/industry\nEducation and Experience\nA university degree in mathematics, computer science, statistics or related field, and 5-7 years of experience in informatics work in academia, advertising, management consulting, marketing or digital consulting\nKnowledge of agency-side execution process is desirable, but not required\n\n$70,000 - $135,000\nOmnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. 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